Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions

From:

Heather Stern

Subject:

Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions

Date:

Sat, 2 May 1998 17:04:51 -0700 (PDT)

I ate the fortune cookie first, then read what Howard Kaikow wrote:
> What's the word on what lists/newsgroups will be available as of 4 May 1998?
Last I heard through paying daily attention to the lynx-dev list only:
> Will there be newsgroups?
Not unless someone does an RFD for one.
The process typically takes from a couple to several months.
There are some good reasons against, among them:
- we are already the lion in ...browsers.misc
- encourages cross-postings, which are often junk
- may(? probably *will*) subject us to spam
> Will there be a separate announce list?
Barely considered, that means probably not.
> Will there be a separate "users" list?
This was shot down; developers need the users to ask the questions
here. Active users joining the list sometimes become developers.
Making them interact appears to be a Good Thing for the browser.
What you didn't ask, but neither did anyone else, was:
will there be a digest version of the list?
For completist's sake to anyone new, there is also a web version, which
several people use to access the list (I can see their X-URL headers):
http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/
(looking for this meant I had to look at lynx.browser.org and follow --
it mentions nothing about newsgroups.)
> At 11:21 PM 4/15/1998 -0500, Bob Izenberg wrote:
[snip]
> >Please wait until 11:30 U.S./Central time on May 4th before sending ...
Cron jobs are your friend. MS-Windows, the Plus! pack has a scheduler (and
cron has been very nicely ported to NT). I dunno about other platforms.
> >If you wish to subscribe a different address than the one that you're
> >using to send your request, send the next two non-blank lines to
> >address@hidden :
> >
> >subscribe lynx-dev ADDRESS
> >end
What are the side effects of using a forwarding-alias name here, on our
future messages reaching the list properly?
Example (I'm not gonna do this myself, but it's illustrative):
I have an account on www.lasfs.org, a side effect of being on the
webmaster staff there. I have it forwarding to my true address here
(address@hidden). For convenience because lasfs.org has a good
strong T1 connection, let's say I sign up using it.
But, when I reply to the list, my mail would be from an unsubscribed
account. What is the path of my hypothetical reply back into the
main list after May 4?
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